RICHES

23              RICHES   

 

1.     The story goes…

 

     The old miner had everything that told him there was gold in thy mountain… He had studied, he had been around it all his life… He had the knowledge on how to read the land and recognize the land had gold… It was certain that the mountain surely held the riches of gold in it…

 

The miner had the tools that told him he could get to it, and remove it as necessary… The old miner had his pick, his shovel, and his dynamite…

 

·       His knowledge of the gold being there he had…

·       The tools of the trade to get to it and haul it out; he had…

·       But the story goes he stopped 6” inches short from the gold…

 

Somewhere as he was going, somewhere in his seeing, he saw no more…

 

He stopped, he buried his pick, his shovel and his dynamite and left…

 

His claim was picked up and just 6” inches more and gold was discovered…

 

·       His knowledge was there…

·       His tools were present…

·       The claim and the possession of the mine was his…

 

It all had to do with time, callouses, aches and pains, frustration and discouragement of what controlled his sight… Time dictated, and the soreness demanded, and then he decided to no longer see the treasure that awaited him…

 

He left buried within the mine his pick, his shovel and his dynamite and its treasure…

 

How many bury their pick, their shovel, and their dynamite in life???

How many have like the miner buried their faith, their prayer and their power because the darkness of the mine has dimmed their ability to see???

 

When fear and doubt overcome his ability to see the gold…

When wisdom is defeated at the choice of seeing pain, rather than the perseverance of seeing their pick strike gold…

 

Life is like that… Anything worth having is like that… Living for GOD is like that…

 

To many give up just short of the treasure that would otherwise make it all better and make sense of the why we give our blood, sweat and tears; our life to the cause of Christ…

To Paul, Jesus was worth it all… He was persuaded of the love of Christ would keep him…

 

To the writer of Hebrews Jesus is a rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM…

 

To Jude, Jesus was the preserver, the one who could keep you from falling, and present you faultless…

 

To John, whatsoever is born of GOD overcometh the world…

 

To Peter, the church; those who are kept by the power of faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time…

 

We don’t have to stop digging when we know that soon one day we will strike gold…

We don’t have to bury our pick, our shovel, and our dynamite…

We don’t have to give up, give out or give in… There are riches that awaits HIS people…

 

Soon we will swing our pick for the last time, and the treasures that we know are there will be ours…

 

Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,    KJV

 

Don’t cast away your hope, by throwing away what you already know… Don’t bury the tools, and the knowledge that has got you to the end of this thing…

 

There are riches that HE has for them that are HIS…

 

Keep digging, keep shoveling, there are riches yet ahead…